Apollo 16 Summary . ... Crew John W. Young, commander . ... Charles M. Duke, Jr., lunar module pilot . ... Apollo 16 rover ride . ... The Lunar Module Pilot, Charlie Duke, had served with distinction as CapCom during the Apollo 11 landing. ... Like the Apollo 15 crew, Young and Duke had been through training as a back-up crew for a landing mission (Apollo 13) and, so, for their own mission were able to spend about forty percent of their time training for the surface operations. ...